Improvement in hair-switches



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Hair Switch.

PatentedDemZS, 1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BURGESS, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAIR-SWITCHES.

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The accompanying drawing illustrates our invention.

A is the switch, which is made so as to be divided into three strands for braiding, composed partly ofhuman hair, B, and partly ofthread or silk or other suitable material, marked in the drawing O. This thread portion C is surrounded by the ,human hair B, or form's the central portion of theswitch, as seen in the drawing.

-The switch, 7 as distinguished from the chignon/is a distinct and well known article. In France it is called a bande-aux. In England it is frequently called a taiL7 Here it is called a switch/7 and is braided and arranged upon the head to suit the taste of the wearer, the arrangement being such that the human hair alone shows, and being such the natural hair of the wearer can be perfectly matched, which cannot be done with any dyed material.

A switch made according to our invention will not get rusty like other articial switches. They can be combed andbraided the same as human hair, and being composed of human hair and fine thread they keep perfectly clean and are entirely unobjectionable for ladies wear.

We do not conine ourselves to any particular proportion between the human hair and the thread, nor to any particular material or kind of thread, as it may be varied in many ways without depart-ing from our invention.

Having thus described our invention, wev claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As a'new article ofmanufacture a switch composed partlyof human hair and partly of thread, substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN F. BURGESS, JR.

Witnesses: y

E. B. DEARBonN, R. B. LINCOLN. 

